Under Romney, funding for higher education fell while tuition at the University of Massachusetts “skyrocketed,” said Joanne Kron, executive director of ProgressNow.

Romney’s presidential campaign today hosted a telephone news conference featuring former University of Colorado President Hank Brown, a Republican who gave Obama an “F.” The president is speaking at the University of Colorado today.

What about Romney’s record, Kron asked.

“Romney claims to be a supporter of education, when his record shows he cut tens of millions of dollars from his state’s higher education budget, especially when times were tough in 2003-2005,” she said, in a news release.

“It’s laughable for him to campaign as a supporter of education when his record shows that on education, like everything else, Mitt Romney only cares about the highest bidder. While the Ivy League raked in money, Romney let public higher education starve and asked students to make up the difference.”

Is Romney being criticized for cutting government funding to higher education? Isn’t that what Obama is threatening to do if higher ed keeps raising tuition?

Dillard Jenkins

Yes it is David and I fully support it. If a college education becomes so expensive that only the children of millionaires can afford it we’ll just keep heading down the road to a nation of the uneducated and ignorant which increases poverty. We’re already too far down in education and academic achievement that we’re getting our butts kicked by China, India and other nations who know that education is not a destination, but a life long journey.

Joey Bunch has been a reporter for 28 years, including the last 12 at The Denver Post. For various newspapers he has covered the environment, water issues, politics, civil rights, sports and the casino industry.